Martin Zwierlein
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Date
25 October 2023
Host
Eugene Demler
Title
Quantum Hall Physics with Rapidly Rotating Quantum Gases
Abstract
The equivalence between neutral particles under rotation and charged particles in a magnetic field relates phenomena as diverse as spinning atomic nuclei, weather patterns, and the quantum Hall effect. Rapidly rotating quantum gases provide a pristine realization of interacting topological quantum matter. I will describe recent experiments creating Bose-Einstein condensates in the lowest Landau level. We reveal their interaction-driven instability towards crystallization into droplet arrays, which we show to be a quantum analogue of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of counterflowing liquids.
Eugene Demler (left) with Martin Zwierlein (right)
